Nah... It's just the novelty.

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Your model will only work if it is a correct model. How can you discriminate between an error in the model and an external influence? Both will manifest themselves as deviations between reality and the model. Your premise that "there is no magic" will lead you inevitably to conclude that the model is at fault, which would quite often be the case, but following that line when an external event was the cause of the deviation will only make your model more incorrect. Now, if your model con incorporate those "external influences", they would not have been external in the first place, would they?

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P.S.: Not advocating either for or against ID. Just following the logic in the argument.

Every Wii comes with one. And it rocks when aiming!

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Hate to break the news to you, but software is the same. Only one entity selling (program you want). You can find alternative programs from other vendors, just like you can find alternative albums from other bands.

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Not sure if I'm more freaked out by your suggestion itself or by the fact it got moderated insightful.

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On Windows normal users will avoid the CLI because of its sheer uselessness. Compare what you can do on the Windows CLI with what you can do on the Linux CLI, and you see the appeal of making use of it in Linux. Now, OSX being BSD underneath, I would expect it to have a powerful CLI that the power user would make use of. As for me, all my Windows machines have Cygwin on them and I make heavy use of it.

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By your same argument, gun manufacturers' work is the critical step in committing murder.

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We've trashed nothing. The whole point of sending us here is the development of global warming technology so they can actually inhabit the planet when they get here. We're not probes. We're just an alien-forming device.

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Except you can remove the TomTom from the car and sell it aftermarket. The last time I checked an OEM EULA wording (admittedly some time ago) the license was tied to the hardware, so you could not transfer it separately from the hardware.

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He gets to break my disk in half if I get to break his nose in half too.

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With XNA the XBox is the most open of the game consoles from a developer's point of view. PS3 allows you to run Linux, but access to the video hardware is quite limited, and for the Wii your only route to hobby development is homebrew.

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I think being rewarded by the majority is right.

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Piracy is the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted works. If you circumvent the copy protection but do not distribute the resulting product, you have effectively broken the DMCA but that is not piracy*.

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* Please don't start with the high seas crap.

That still fails to explain why "artistic creations" are considered worthy of longer protection than "technical inventions".

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Any given game is supplied by a single publisher. That means the publisher has a monopoly on said game. Supply and demand has no bearing on monopoly prices. Economics 101.

Price fixing happens when multiple suppliers agree on a price level instead of competing between themselves. The publisher has no other supplier of the game with whom to agree a price, thus no proce fixing.

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